What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. HENRYThere was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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